Working with 2 monitors

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Working with 2 monitors

Unread postby artimrj » Wed Dec 31, 2014 12:12 pm

I use the Google overlay to try and make the route prototype. The over lay is sometimes "foggy" though and you can not see things very well. I got a second monitor and put Google Earth up on it so I can see better as the data is better. The overlay is actually using Google Maps and not earth. But to my demise I discovered every time I clicked on the second monitor to move around, TS would minimize on the main monitor. Aaaaargh!!! Looking in the graphics settings of TS2015 I see there is a new option, a borderless window. My new monitor is up to 1920 x 1080 and you can have a window that size and borderless. Now the second monitor can be clicked on and TS does not minimize.

Also Google Earth has been updating things. I have 9/28/2014 data for where I am working now, other parts are 2012 though and I notice a slight offset in the data. Some places it is more than slight.
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Re: Working with 2 monitors

Unread postby gkbaldwin » Wed Dec 31, 2014 1:52 pm

Hi Bob:

You can set you screen in Railworks to borderless window, which then you can move from Railworks to Google Earth and back without Railworks minimizing. !!*ok*!!

At least that works for me. *!lol!*

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Re: Working with 2 monitors

Unread postby Chacal » Wed Dec 31, 2014 2:19 pm

artimrj wrote:every time I clicked on the second monitor to move around, TS would minimize on the main monitor.


Any game being played full-screen will do that.
When I work in TS (as opposed to playing it), I always put it in a window (borderless or not).
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